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Windows and Line Endings

Dotkernel repos ship .gitattributes with * text eol=lf, which governs anything git checks out. Belt and braces, configure the client so nothing converts on the way in or out:

git config core.autocrlf false
git config core.eol lf
git config core.safecrlf warn

Verify

git config --get core.autocrlf              # false
git ls-files --eol | grep -v 'w/lf' | head  # nothing for text files

Already committed CRLF? Renormalize once with git add --renormalize ..

PhpStorm

Editor → Code Style → Line separator = Unix (\n), and File Encodings → UTF-8, Create UTF-8 files: with NO BOM.

How Dotboost enforces this while working

normalize-file.sh fixes BOM, CRLF, trailing whitespace, and final newline on every file Claude writes — see Hooks Reference. session-start.sh also warns at the start of a session if it detects CRLF in the working tree. /dk-hygiene runs the same checks across a whole set of changed files on demand.

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